Tokuji Kobayashi Movies

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima.

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

Hiroo Ikeda movie

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son....

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

A young man torn between love and friendship.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

1926 jidaigeki (period drama) directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese silent film from 1925.

The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire

The debut film of Hiroshi Shimizu is about a man who, while searching for his lost daughter, encounters a young woman and her mother who are also...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Japanese film from 1932.

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

After losing their parents, Eiichi and his sister Kikue are taken in by their aunt and uncle. Kikue is sent to Tokyo to work as a servant. Left...